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  • db -
    Ikeda's sound installation in an anechoic chamber is intended to quite physically explode the senses. Using the highest and lowest frequencies that human ears can bear, db is a hyper-dense composition of sine waves, white noise and other elements,
  • The luminal tunnel of Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport was always the perfect symbolic experience of the future. With its plunging vanishing point and soaring roofline, Saarinen's theatrical passage embodied, if not created,
  • spectraII -
    The installation relies on the intersection of sound and architecture and continues Ikeda's interest in phenomena - be they light, tone or sound - and how they materialise and manifest themselves in the world. The piece is built as a narrow,
  • spectra -
    date | place MAY 4 - JUN 20, 2001 Mica Moca, Milan, IT concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda commissioned by Mica Moca, 2001 spectra is a series of large scale installations employing intense white light as a sculptural material.
  • date | place OCT 2-7, 2001 Centraal Musuem, Utrecht, NL concept, composition: Ryoji Ikeda commissioned by Impakt Festival, 2001
  • Intuitive movements in front of a mirror are banal. Replacing the mirror by a screen showing a similar mirrored image, but filmed and augmented with "transfiction/alized” elements, results in visual interaction, in body movements, which can trigger
  • Hello, world! -
    “Hello, world!” analyses the ephemerality or longevity of storage media and uses acustic signals for data storage. In a closed system, which is made up of a computer, a loudspeaker, 246 metres of copper pipe and a microphon, circulates a codified,
  • Mood Swings -
    The Mood Swings installation creates states of emotion and perception by translating the viewer's body into a swarm of moving particles that change "moods" from one extreme to another. As the visitor's image is captured on a live video
  • A -
    date | place APR 26 - JUN 18, 2000 Hayward Gellery, London, UK tech spec speaker HHB Circle 5 8 power amplifier non-specific 4 8ch HD playback system AKAI DR8 1 white wall non-specific 2 white
  • The museum is redesigning part of its exhibition space, Science Storms, a major new section , opens 18 March 2010. My work, String Waves, will be part of the new collection. Installation was completed in early December 2009. These images show